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Aimless WWII veteran George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) takes a factory job and becomes involved with underprivileged co-worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters), who becomes pregnant. After George falls for gorgeous socialite Angela Vickers (Elizabeth Taylor), Alice learns of their romance and threatens to expose him, setting in motion a series of tragic events. Based on Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy," director George Stevens' Oscar-winning drama also stars Anne Revere, Fred Clark, Raymond Burr. 122 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English (SDH); featurettes; interviews; audio commentary; theatrical trailers. Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews A Place in the Sun

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Product Description Battle of the Bulge (BD) Amazon.com The German offensive in December 1944 became the basis for this all-star Hollywood take on the Battle of the Bulge. Henry Fonda is an officer who predicts the assault, Robert Ryan and Dana Andrews are Army brass skeptical of his intuitions, and Robert Shaw (his hair dyed yellow and his eyes glinting with malice) is a German officer leading the tank attack. Shaw is certainly the most compelling thing about the film, especially in his philosophical debates with ambivalent underling Hans Christian Blech. Elsewhere, the movie jumps around to sidebar stories (cowardly James MacArthur becomes a leader, wheeler-dealer Telly Savalas falls in love) while messing around with the historical facts of the battle. There are interesting episodes, such as the Malmedy massacre of American POWs and the Germans' use of English-speaking spies, but overall Battle of the Bulge has the feeling of having been patched together from different scripts. On the physical level the movie comes up short, with the Spanish locations rarely suggesting the wintry misery of the battle, and the use of models and studio sets highly inadequate. A number of war films from this era are compelling on their own terms, but in the wake of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, this one looks antique. --Robert Horton

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The most savage killers lair in the west! George Montgomery (The Brasher Doubloon) stars as Jim Tex Wall, a rancher turned outlaw searching for three men who raped and killed his wife. Trailing the killers, he lands an honest job as a cowhand on the spread managed by the disabled Bull Herrick (Bruce Bennett, Sahara). When Bull's sister (Sylvia Findley) is kidnapped by a gang of outlaws, Tex seeing an opportunity to redeem himself; rides to her rescue. Veteran filmmaker Sidney Salkow (Twice-Told Tales) directs this gorgeously photographed western, featuring a stellar cast that includes the great Richard Boone (Big Jake), Peter Graves (TV's Mission: Impossible) and Warren Stevens (Forbidden Planet). Robbers' Roost was the second version of the venerable Zane Grey (Western Union) yarn.